Dwarf army

[Sjeng]

my Lord, where do you find room to play such vast armies xD
Looks nice, but sharper pictures would be better though :)
I like the dwarves with the coloured hats that remind me of snow white's dwarves :P

[Swiftblade]

Yeah, I'll take some sharper pictures later when there's better light. Since I'm not playing I'll probably do it when the game is set up to play. Might even do a battle report!

I have a dedicated games room with a 180cm long table (can be extended to 210cm or 240cm), but I think 6000 points fights well enough on a 6 x 4 table. Its a shame, my old house had a converted attic that ran the whole length of the house. Up there I build a 12 foot long table and regularly had 4 way games with 10,000 points per side.

[Scumdog47]

Swiftblade wrote

10,000 points per side.

Metal!

[Swiftblade]

Scumdog47 wrote

Metal!

Sorry, I actually meant 10,000 points per person. 20,000 points per side.

The last game I recall had something like 5 or 6 greater demons, 4 or 5 dragons and more war machines than you could reasonably shake a stick at (not to mention the size of the armies themselves).

I come from a wargaming background, I don't do silly little skirmishes :P

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Just out of interest how long do your 20,000 pts per army games take? and in which edition?

[Swiftblade]

If memory serves me correctly it would have been 4th edition when we first played a game that big (the one with the spall cards) and I believe we stopped playing at about 6th edition (which is probably why those are the books I've managed to find).

Assuming an early start to the day a game would take the best part of a day to play, I can't recall many over running into the following day (You must remember, the last time I played would've been around 9 years ago, so forgive the hazy memory).

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Swiftblade wrote

If memory serves me correctly it would have been 4th edition when we first played a game that big (the one with the spall cards) and I believe we stopped playing at about 6th edition (which is probably why those are the books I've managed to find).

Assuming an early start to the day a game would take the best part of a day to play, I can't recall many over running into the following day (You must remember, the last time I played would've been around 9 years ago, so forgive the hazy memory).

So around a day - and compensating for breaks for meals ect? (although I guess with armies that play at the limits of practically you could take meals during the opposing side's movement phase)  

do you use structured army lists or just put as many points as you can on the table up to the maximum?

PS you should give skirmish type games a try, they are a lot more tactical that you might think - every dice roll counts and you need to treat each troop as valuable  

[Swiftblade]

Oh no, its proper structured armies. X number of heroes, Y minimum core choices etc. Though I seem to recall it was something like "no more than 25% of your army can be spent on characters" in the earlier days. The 6000 point army above (for example) is limited to 5 Lords, 7 Heroes; has a minimum of 7 Core units and a maximum of 6 special and 5 rare (if I recall from last night).

Lunch we'd eat whilst playing, turns are no way as long as you might be imagine. Move a few troops, roll a few dice. Game lengths are not significantly greater than smaller games.

I've played my fair share of 2000/3000 point games, not only have I found tactics to be almost redundant, but I find the whole idea of the game silly. When armies go on the march, they have troops, not 3 units!

I guess each to their own, but I've always been a fan of more epic conflicts (which is a shame that the 15mm didn't take off, though the rules were awful). I'll be honest, even 10,000 point games don't feel like a ful size army (though certainly much more so), I've fought in LRP battles with 2000 players per side and that has come close to a battle, but even then its not the scale of most historial battles...

[Scumdog47]

I think the most extreme battle we fought back in 4th Edition was at 32'000 pts/side (3 players/side).

The battlefield took up most of my buddy's living room floor.

It was fun to have done it but definitely not something that was habit forming.

[Swiftblade]

Wow, that sounds epic! 10,000 used to be my staple, 20,000 the biggest. Would love to play mega games though, with enough space and time.

[Scumdog47]

It was epic.

But crawling around on all fours did a number on our knees.